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    Use "elaborately" in a sentence

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    elaborately


    1. carefully thought out and often elaborately organised, although it still


    2. was carved far more elaborately than the others as well as being bigger, with silverware he retrieved


    3. Fetish was represented by hundreds of charms of every size, shape, and description, from the common slaves' ju-ju of plaited straw to the elaborately worked charms of chased gold or leopard and lion skin, with human blood on the sacred inscription inside as a fancied panacea, of far-reaching power, to cure every disease, destroy an enemy, and grant the wearer a perfect immunity from any ills the flesh or spirit is heir to


    4. professional life is a point that could be discussed elaborately


    5. Her hair was elaborately crimped, her face was quite plump, her cheeks rosy, her white eyes shining


    6. They were made of a very hard wood, perhaps the same wood as the practice swords, and were elaborately carved with a representation of a raven


    7. At the far end there was an elaborately carved wooden chair on a raised platform with smaller, but just as elaborate chairs on either side


    8. universe as we know it is an elaborately constructed virtual reality world that we’re all hooked up into


    9. After the show I met Scarlet and Marv backstage, which on this night was the corner of the diner’s stock room, elaborately decorated with mop bucket half filled with dirty water and… you guessed it… a mop


    10. Rumours of an impending calamity had just begun to circulate when the tinkle of amplified bells signalled the arrival of the Mages who filed onto their elaborately decorated balcony above and behind the stages

    11. Standing on a deep blue carpet in the centre of the chamber was a heavily carved oval table, replete with candelabra, silver, crystal goblets and bowls of flowers, surrounded by thirteen padded chairs with elaborately carved backs, and two plain chairs devoid of either padding or decoration


    12. Motioning Robert to stand in front of his elaborately panelled desk, the headmaster sat, placed his elbows on the pristine blotter, made a steeple with his fingers and peered at Robert over gold-rimmed half-glasses


    13. An elaborately framed photograph of his father became an icon of purity that convinced him he was responsible for his father’s death, by having pleaded for the ride on the river


    14. Thrice thereafter the temple was rebuilt, each time greater and more elaborately than before, but always on the site of the original shrine, though men forgot the reason therefor


    15. She looks elaborately at me and then shakes her head


    16. He was the most elaborately dressed


    17. The Indian that was elaborately dressed came forward


    18. The local fashion seemed to be unisex in style, with robes made of elaborately embroidered holographic silk being apparently in favor


    19. It opened and closed up in an elaborately decorated twenty four


    20. Light streamed forth from enormous chandeliers hanging from the ceiling more than 20 feet above them, and the furniture was elaborately carved from the same type of wood as the wall panels

    21. Slowly, he inserted a corner of the handkerchief between his left forefinger and thumb, and then, elaborately, he tucked the rest of the handkerchief into his fist with his right forefinger


    22. Our junior students prepared everything elaborately


    23. Sheila very elaborately with high intelligent manner explained aims and objects of Z


    24. If we really want to understand the elaborately staged sacrifices and sacred


    25. At the other end of the hall Beatrice is sitting down on an elaborately carved wooden chair, a throng of elves around her


    26. Khan, an Indian from ISKCON (and he is not the only practising Muslim associated with ISKCON), who explains elaborately to an open-minded Pakistani Muslim how it is possible to practise Islam and Hinduism simultaneously[121], and there is also actually a minority of Pakistani Muslims who practise Hinduism alongside Islam[122],


    27. “In a world of app lause, where you never hear the victims scream in pain, because you have the Worship Filter on, how many voices are you silencing as you stream another expensively crafted I'mage of yourself for their bemusement? How much is the world paying for the self-promotion of your trivial observations? How many nuclear reactors must be made to generate the energy to record, upload, store, play, replay, again and again on innumerable computers for an unknown length of time all the videos of ourselves fucking each other with nu and more elaborately designed and conspicuously extravagant paraphernalia? Is the world really going to die because we can't break our endless and expensive fascination with our own genitalia? From plastic surgery to animalbot pornography, from sweatshop lingerie to FuXconn apparatuses, how much energy is spent to make us beautiful, to get us 940


    28. You put it, it is true, more elaborately than he does, with a great erembroidery of fine words, but I will try to believe you equally sincere


    29. Or shall I tell you--I am anxious to make this letter long enough to please you--about Frau von Lindeberg, who spent two days elaborately cutting Joey, the two first days of his appearance in their house as lodger, persuaded, I suppose, that no one even remotely and by business connected with the Schmidts could be anything but undesirable, and how, meeting him in the passage, or on his way through the garden to us, the iciest stare was all she felt justified in giving him in return for his friendly grin, and how on the third day she suddenly melted, and stopped and spoke pleasantly to the poor solitary, commiserating with his situation as a stranger in a foreign country, and suggesting the alleviation to his loneliness of frequent visits to them? No one knows the first cause of this melting


    30. Three specially variegated young women, dressed in the flimsiest of fine-weather clothes, all damp muslin and feathers, pretty girls with pronounced hair arrangements, were smoking cigarettes; and in the corner near the door, demure and solitary, sat another pretty young woman in black, with a very small bonnet trimmed with a very big Alsatian bow on the back of a very elaborately curled head

    31. She had calculated the visit on the basis of tea only, and had prepared only and elaborately for that


    32. The ceremony performed he sank again into his chair and did nothing more at all, being waited on by his mother and leaving it to her to see that the visitor was given cream and sugar and cake, until the moment arrived when Ingeborg, made abundantly and elaborately aware that she was interrupting, prepared crest-fallen to go away again


    33. The smaller dining-room was quite as elaborately furnished as the larger, though of course the furniture was more crowded


    34. The commitment to the asylum, the escape, the search, the finding of a substitute body, mutilated beyond ordinary recognition, the mysterious transfers, and finally the identification in the Morgue--all had been part of an elaborately staged play!


    35. It was a showplace, with elaborately carved sixteenth-century Italian walnut furniture and rose-marble floors bordered with sienna-red marble


    36. She wore an elaborately carved silver headdress with horns sticking out of the temples and two more sticking up above the top of her head


    37. During the “clear up” of these victims, Roger often watched with horror as the digger unearthed rows and rows of elaborately wrapped human remains


    38. On the outside, the balconies and the main entrance are wooden constructions elaborately worked


    39. Standing three stories tall, it was elaborately designed with six steep gables, the kind of place that would have been fashionable about a hundred or more years earlier


    40. Antique chandeliers still hung from the elaborately moulded ceiling, out-of-place echoes of lost elegance, overshadowed by chunks of loose plaster, exposed pipes and drooping duct work

    41. It was dense, and heavy, and black as tar, and elaborately carved with dragon claws for feet and dragon wings for armrests and dragon heads peering out from the shoulders


    42. That it was an elaborately contrived suitcase bomb I had no doubt of, but how to make it tick? How had the old man even got this past the scanners for that matter?


    43. Her hair was elaborately worked about her face and neck


    44. Abruptly the hall ended at a pair of double doors that were elaborately engraved with what else but naked women and snakes


    45. The bed consisted of nothing but a large elaborately patterned burgundy cushion


    46. If the New Testament was written to teach modern Unitarianism, there is no series of books on earth more elaborately contrived to fail of their purpose


    47. "And with no less do I tell the tale," said Don Quixote; "and so, to proceed--the venerable Montesinos led me into the palace of crystal, where, in a lower chamber, strangely cool and entirely of alabaster, was an elaborately wrought marble tomb, upon which I beheld, stretched at full length, a knight, not of bronze, or marble, or jasper, as are seen on other tombs, but of actual flesh and bone


    48. The Feast of St Adolphus required a secondary altar, an elaborately carved wooden table set on a platform that could be moved about the church as required


    49. He soon manifested his familiarity with the ponderous and imposing machinery of antique physic; in which every remedy contained a multitude of far-fetched and heterogeneous ingredients, as elaborately compounded as if the proposed result had been the Elixir of Life


    50. Godwyn had come for a ceremonial crosier, or shepherd’s crook, made of wood encased in gold, with an elaborately jewelled handle






















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    Synonyms for "elaborately"

    elaborately in an elaborate way intricately

    "elaborately" definitions

    with elaboration